My current day job is delivering mail. It's good paywise, terrible artwise. It's long hours, physically exhausting and kinda boring. But I'm married, need insurance and live in an expensive city. So I get up early and draw as much as I can before work.
@@rockon8174 you can make that but you'll have no time for a social life or art. I say this from experience. I've been at doing it for eleven years now.
0:47 be a Bus Driver, a Plumber, all jobs that require skill and pay very well with good benefits. 9-5 you make the company rich. 6-10 you make yourself rich. Guaranteed you are not drawing 12 hours a day for prolonged periods of time. Get yourself a good paying day job and build more skills while working on your own art project.
My current job is in IT. Programming. Consistency is there. But long hours due to emergencies and various situations happen. Single dad no relationship with shared custody of two teens. Visits with them have become lessened due to their social lives taking a center seat. My creative bursts or pour of writing panels and pages for my artist take place during bouts of insomnia where this connection with this fictional realm and characters flow and I get up turn on the lights. And start writing and the fuel is to get it out there. Because that is my passion.
Man, I had to hit that subscribe button because your videos have been very insightful lately. I'm with you on maintaining whatever lifestyle is necessary to produce the work that you yourself want to produce and not having to work for an overlord. That's how I've done it for roughly fifteen years now, and I'm still doing that. There are too many of us out here, and our original ideas need to be seen. Keep up the great videos, man!
@@TheComiKen Yeah, I'm doing that for my indie comic. I'm married, but other than that, I'm right there with you... trying to be as frugal and cautious as I can and just stay laser-focused on cranking out pages on top of the 9-5 job. Outside of marriage, I have no social life. Hahahah!!!!
I do allied security. It's super chill and off to my self and I can work on my stuff. I watch an empty building at one post. And my other I'm in a camera room alone. It's the best job for working on my art.
Have you ever considered short term military contract or reserves as a plan b? Could help your financials/savings and health costs. Good to hear your perspective on your work and situation, peace be with you Ken.
I'm 41 years old, And i agree with your message, it is better invest your younger years working on your project, and not partying and wasting time, I get to that conclusion very late, with family and a lot of responsabilities. keep it up, man.
Nah. Party and enjoy the company of friends. If sitting at a desk in isolation is not appealing, best to party, work and enjoy your friends and build memories.
I’d like to do something similar, but perhaps learn a construction skill like wielding and move to a low cost of living area. And I could still work on my art and build a brand online. edit: I’m also single and don’t intend on having kids. aside from my pet, but she’s abit old now, so depends.
The fact that you gave up high paying job for less stress job to maximize creative output is commendable. But it's normally true, bigger responsibilities can have larger tax on your mental bandwidth.
It is hard to get art job without any contacts. If you are really good then you probably can get nice gigs while mostly being "outside" of the industry.
24:40 it's called STRATEGIC RETREAT! Your future wife and kids don't want a dad who bypasses guaranteed money for projected money in a subjective field, like art.
You need to chill, Ken doesn't even have a wife and kids yet 😆 There's growth to be made, it's more detestable to require everyone to be in a high paying job as if money is the only thing that matter. He has a more respectable character than someone who's trying to shame others just to fit into their own world view. Like if you wanted your family members to make better choices, you could for example talk out all the options instead of guilt tripping them.
@@rockon8174 True, but there's no virtue in greed too. People who can find happiness in the smallest thing without dragging others down being decent human being has more virtue imo that's for sure. So you do you buddy, as long as we are happy with our own life right? Why does this trigger you so much tho.
@TheComiKen 'Cause at one point in my life, I WAS YOU!!!!! And the best advice I got to do something else came from the EIC at Marvel. He did me a huge favor by not giving me an assignment regardless of how he felt my work was an inch away from being ready! Now I have multiple skills and multiple opportunities and it doesn't matter what happens to comics, I will still be okay able to survive and thrive. That's the point! That's why I'm roasting this video and it's content! You're too old to be handing out such poor advice! Don't base your potential on statistical anomalies, that's how you end up missing out on the bigger picture and analyzing where you can best apply your abilities.
21:30 WHAT OPPORTUNITY? Dude you just said you're struggling to pay bills! Seems to me you are wasting time here!!!! Dude, Jack Kirby's greatest works and creative output was in his 40's!!!!!! Get your day job, get your benefits and draw in your spare time! It's a job! A good paying day job gives you money to invest in other things like real estate!
2:08 that's a you thing, bud. You live up to your own self-imposed limitations. This is more an indicator you haven't developed your skillsets. Making commercial art is a skill. It's a job. Treat it as such. Right now,making art is a hobby for you.
20:27 you do that by getting a high paying job. City Bus drivers make six-figure incomes! Time is something you don't get back, sir. You went to the Kubert School, which is a waste of money, in my opinion. Your work output is not even reflective of your attendance. Comics is a hobby for you, get a good paying day job with benefits.
What the heck are secretly me from the future because I'm working on a comic, also a dish washer, and we are both black artists. Hey,tell who wins the next election, lol
